↑ Reynolds, K.D. (2004). "John, Prince (1905–1919)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76928. Truy cập ngày 20 tháng 10 năm 2013.
1 2 Zeepvat, Charlotte (February 2003). "Reflections on 'The Lost Prince'". Royalty Digest.
↑ "A Royal Christening". The Interior. Western Presbyterian Publishing Company. 36: 1133. 1905.
↑ George once stated that "his father was frightened of his mother, he was frightened of his father, and he was damned well going to make sure that his children are frightened of him" (Rees 2002, p. 256).
1 2 3 4 5 Ziegler, Philip (1991). King Edward VIII: The Official Biography. London: Collins.
↑ Bing, Edward J. (1937). The Letters of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Marie. London: Nicholson and Watson.
↑ "very quaint and one evening when Uncle George returned from stalking he bent over Aunt May and kissed her, and they heard Johnny soliloquize, 'She kissed Papa, ugly old man!"
↑ Athlone, Princess Alice, Countess of (1966). For My Grandchildren. London: Evans.
↑ Edwards, Anne (1986). Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor.
1 2 3 Reynolds, K.D. (2004). "John, Prince (1905–1919)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
1 2 3 Lamont-Brown, Raymond (2003). Royal Poxes & Potions. London: Sutton Publishing.
↑ "a report was published (not in The Times) that Their Majesties had arranged for their youngest son, Prince John, to attend next term the school at which his elder brothers had been studying there. It is officially stated that this is entirely inaccurate. It has not been decided that Prince John to go to school at Broadstairs at all, and it is quite certain that he will not go there next term."
↑ Zeepvat, Charlotte (February 2003). "Reflections on 'The Lost Prince'". Royalty Digest.
↑ "a satellite with his own little household on an outlying farm on the Sandringham estate... Guests at Balmoral remember him during the Great War as tall and muscular, but always a distant figure glimpsed from afar in the woods, escorted by his own retainers."
1 2 Poliakoff, Stephen (2003). The Lost Prince. London: Methuen Publishing.
↑ Among Winifred's memories of her time at Wood Farm, as recalled by her daughter, was a bicycle race between John and his cousin, Crown Prince Olav of Norway, who could not have been in England during World War I
↑ "we [dared] not let him be with his brothers and sister, because it upsets them so much, with the attacks getting so bad and coming so often."
↑ "a friendly, outgoing little boy, much loved by his brothers and sister, a sort of mascot for the family"
1 2 "Death of Youngest Son of King and Queen". Daily Mirror. ngày 20 tháng 1 năm 1919. p. 2.
↑ "a great shock, tho' for the poor little boy's restless soul, death came as a great relief. [She] broke the news to George and [they] motored down to Wood Farm. Found poor Lala very resigned but heartbroken. Little Johnnie looked very peaceful lying there"
↑ "He’s been practically shut up for the last 2 years... no one has even seen him except the family and then only once or twice a year. His death is the greatest relief imaginable or what we’ve always silently prayed for."
↑ Van der Kiste, John (1991). George V's Children. London: A. Sutton.
↑ "for [John] it is a great relief, as his malady was becoming worse as he grew older, & he has thus been spared much suffering. I cannot say how grateful we feel to God for having taken him in such a peaceful way, he just slept quietly into his heavenly home, no pain no struggle, just peace for the poor little troubled spirit which had been a great anxiety to us for many years, ever since he was four years old."
↑ "Canon Dalton & Dr Brownhill [John's physician] conducted the service which was awfully sad and touching. Many of our own people and the villagers were present. We thanked all Johnnie's servants who have been so good and faithful to him."
↑ As remembered by Winifred Thomas, quoted by her daughter in Tizley 2008.
↑ She was referring to her youngest son, Prince Alexander John of Wales, who had died in 1871 one day after birth, and who was also buried at St Mary Magdalene.(Weir 2008, p. 320)
↑ [he felt] like such a cold hearted and unsympathetic swine for writing all that [he] did... No one can realize more than [she] how poor little Johnnie meant to [him] who hardly knew him...I feel so much for you, darling Mama, who was his mother.
↑ There was nothing unusual in what [the King and Queen] did. At that time, people with epilepsy were put apart from the rest of the community. They were often put in epilepsy colonies or mental institutions. It was thought to be a form of mental illness …
